The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying someone connected with a recent theft in the county.
Detectives have submitted two photos, one they are describing as “a person of interest,” and the other photo is of the suspect’s vehicle.

The theft occurred in the early morning hours of June 8 at the Tower Heights Subdivision, east of Shelbyville, and involved a theft from a vehicle.

A credit card was stolen and was used that same morning, mostly in the Frankfort area.

James W. Devore III, 18, of 5136 Bell Ave. in Shelbyville was arrested May 19 on Boone Station Road and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first offense, no license in possession and careless driving.

Chip Minnis sat in the room where he once spent second grade Wednesday and unwittingly wrote a chapter in history.

Minnis, a lifelong resident of Simpsonville, was approved by the Simpsonville City Commission as the city’s new police chief, succeeding Scott Chappell.

But the appointment of Minnis, 50, is a little bit bigger than just a change at the top of the city’s law enforcement: He becomes the first African-American to head a department of any kind in the history of the city.